We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
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"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Technical support has been good."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"The filtering is excellent."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"Setup is easy. Anyone with basic firewall experience can do it."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"We use SonicWall NSa for authenticating MAC (media access control) ID from the PC."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"They've become quite expensive."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"It's very hard to manage this box. You really need a lot of skills to operate the SonicWall. There is training and the like, but it's just hard to manage. Even if you have the knowledge, there are too many options. The menus are not very clear, where you should find the information."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
Earn 20 points
Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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